Buttes Chaumont wedding ambush

The Buttes Chaumont wedding ambush occurred in the autumn of 1940 during World War II. The French Resistance ambushed the wedding of German officer Siegfried Albrecht and Chloe Peltier, killing Albrecht and several of his Wehrmacht groomsmen.

Albrecht had forced the French girl Chloe Peltier to marry him after threatening to deport her family, and Father Denis, a priest with links to the Resistance, decided to kill Albrecht as a favor to the girl, her family, and to finish what he had started with the German embassy in Paris bombing.

Father Denis contacted Sean Devlin about the hit, and Devlin hid behind a fence during the ceremony. Father Denis signalled Devlin to strike when he told anyone with objections to the marriage to state them, and Devlin killed most of the seated groomsmen with a German stick grenade. Father Denis gunned down Albrecht with a Thompson submachine gun as Devlin finished off the groomsmen, and Father Denis told Devlin to save himself as truckloads of German soldiers arrived at the park. Devlin succeeded in escaping the German soldiers after killing several of them, freeing Buttes Chaumont of Nazi control.